Music and Time Annotation << Back The third movement of L. Berio’s Sinfonia in the aspect of hidden polyphony of the novel by S. Beckett «The Unnamable» A.V. Nikulina In the article the verbal text is considered not only as a bearer of linguistic meaning, but primarily as the most important structural element that underlies the construction of verbal composition. The aim of the study is the most comprehensive consideration of the text of the novel by S. Beckett «Unnamable» uniting all the variety of verbal elements in the Third movement of the «Sinfonia» by L. Berio. Verbal polyphony is examined as the realization of the hidden polyphony of Beckett’s novel, which becomes apparent in the composer’s creative reading of the text of the literary source. Keywords: Luciano Berio, Samuel Beckett, Sinfonia, verbal polyphony. Contacts: - Pp. 12-20.